Re: [Vala] Bindings for gdkkeysyms.h

["Dan Saul" <daniel saul gmail com>]

Ah, thanks! I had assumed --pkg was for namespaces and not actual files.

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Alexander Bokovoy <ab altlinux org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Dan Saul <daniel saul gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It would seem that bindings for gdkkeysyms.h seem to be missing. As a
> > consequence we have to use the numbers instead eg:
> >
> > switch (event.keyval)
> >                {
> >                        case 0xff52: // GDK_Up
> >                        ...
> >
> > This works, but of course is not ideal. Being new to vala the language
> > came fast but I haven't yet tackled any api work. So as an attempt I
> > created the file "gdk-keysyms.vapi" in the vapi directory and placed
> > the attached contents inside. However I get the following error:
> >
> > SidebarList.vala:169.9-169.19: error: The name `KeySyms' does not
> > exist in the context of `Gdk'
> >                        case Gdk.KeySyms.Up: // GDK_Up 0xff52
> >                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> valac --pkg gdk-keysyms
> Vala doesn't read all .vapi files when compiling application. You have
> to specify what subset of them needs to be included, except glib-2.0
> which is included automagically.
> --
> / Alexander Bokovoy